Improvement in grain-tallying machines



A. HARTER.

Grain" Tally. No. 59,217. Patented Oct. 30, 1866.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

ANDREW HARTER OF DELPHI, INDIANA.

IMPROVEMENT IN GRAlN-TALLYING MACHINES.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 59,212, dated October30, 1866.

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, ANDREW HARTER, of Delphi, in the county of Carrolland State of Indiana, have invented certain new and useful Improvementsin Grain-Tallyin g Machines; and I do hereby declare that the followingis a full and complete description of the construction and operation ofthe same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, makin g apart of this specification, in which Figure l is a plan view of themachine. Fig. 2 is a side elevation. Fig. 3 is a frontend view. Figs. 4.and 5 are sectional views.

Like letters of reference refer to like parts in the different views.

A represents the frame of the machine, which is of a suitableconstruction for the operating parts. B B is a platform, arrangedbetween the side pieces of the frame, the middle piece, B, of whichextends back, is pivoted at a to the frame, as indicated by the dottedlines in Fig. 2, and to the front end is pivoted a vertical arm, 0,(seen in Fig. 4,) which, at the top, comes against a ratchet-spring, J.This spring is secured to one side of the upright portion of the frame,curves down round a ratchet-wheel, D and the end is formed into a notchthat catches into the teeth of the wheel, as represented in Fig. 4,whereby the wheel is turned by the weight on the platform, as will bedescribed.

The ratchet-wheel D is secured on a shaft, 1, that has its bearings inthe frame, the front end of which passes through the center of anindex-plate, E, placed on the upright portion of the frame, as shown inFig. 8.

I) is a pawl attached to one side of the frame, that catches into theteeth ofthe ratchet-wheel D, to prevent it from turning back. Inside ofthe front index-plate, E, there is another indexplate, F, as seen inFig. 5, which is secured to a sleeve, it, that is placed on the shaft I.On this sleeve there is a wheel, L, that is notched around the edge, asshown in Fig. 4, and into these notches fits the end of a spring, m,attached to the frame for holding it in place.

Around on one side of the wheel project pins t. (Seen in Fig. 5.) Thesepins come in contact with a spring-catch, 0, (seen in Fig. 5,) thatcurves around and is attached to one side of the wheel D, as indicatedby the dotted lines a in Fig. 4.

f is a cam secured to the frame, turned outward at the end, as seen inFig. 5, which is for the purpose of moving out the springcatch when itcomes around against it, so that one of the pins twill strike againstthe catch, that will turn the wheel L, and consequently the index-plateF. When the catch 0 passes off the cam it will spring back, and not comein contact with the pins till the wheel D turns round again. The spring122, fitting into the notches of L, as before stated, holds the wheelstationary.

tis a pointer on the plate E, fastened on the end of the shaft I, forindicating the number on the index, the index being divided ofi andmarked on the plate, and by means of the two index -plates from one tofive hundred bushels can be tallied. A small square is cut out in theoutside plate to present the number on the inner plate, that is turnedor moved one number for every time that the pointer t moves once aroundon the plate E.

In tallying grain by this machine it can be placed near a thrasher orother machine for discharging grain, and a basket or receptacle of somekind placed on the platform B B to receive the grain, and when onehalfbushel is poured in the weight will cause the platform to descend atthe front end, so that the rear end will be tipped up, causing the arm 0to force up the spring J, so that the wheel D will be turned one notch.The pawl b will prevent the wheel from turning back. The elasticityofthe curved springJ will cause it to spring back and catch into anothertooth when the weight or grain is removed from the platform. Thismovement of the wheel D turns the shaft I, so as to cause the pointer toindicate a half-bushel on the index E. As another half-bushel is pouredinto the receptacle the wheel D is turned another notch in the samemanner, and so on until the pointer t has been moved entirely round onthe plate E, when twenty-five bushels will be tallied, every movement ofthe pointer counting one half bushel, or one bushel, according as themachine may be constructed and arranged.

When the pointer has been turned entirely around on the plate, or theratchet wheel caused to make one revolution, the springcatch 0 is movedout by the cam f against the pins t, so that it comes against one ofthem,

when the wheel L will be turned one notch, moving the plate F, so as topresent a number noting what has been counted by the other plate. Itthetallyinghas just been commenced,

- the number will be twenty-five, as twenty-five is counted every timethe pointer moves once around on the plate E, and every movement of theplate F adds twenty-five, twenty-five be ing the first, fifty the next,and so on up to five hundred. Any number above what is indicated on theplate F is found by adding the number indicated on the plate E, if it isfive, ten, or twenty, (more or less,) to the number presented on theindex F.

\Vhat I claim as my improvement, and desire to secure by Letters Patent,is-

The combination of the platform B B, arm 0, and wheels D with the wheelL, sleeve h, and index-plate E, constructed, arranged, and operating inthe manner substantially as shown and described, and for the purpose setforth.

ANDREW HARTER.

Witnesses LEWIS B. SIMS, JAMES H. STEWART.

